Art prices: Picasso has 40% of World’s all-time Top Ten

Auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen calls for final bids before dropping the gavel as he sells Pablo Picasso's "Les femmes d'Alger (Version 'O')" (Women of Algiers) at Christie's Auction House in the Manhattan borough of New York May 11, 2015. The auction house had estimated the 1955 cubist oil "Les femmes d'Alger (Version "O")" would sell for about $140 million, but several bidders competing via telephone drove the winning bid to $160 million, for a final price of $179,365,000 including Christie's commission of just over 12 percent. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri
Auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen calls for final bids before dropping the gavel as he sells Pablo Picasso’s “Les femmes d’Alger (Version ‘O’)” (Women of Algiers) at Christie’s Auction House in the Manhattan borough of New York May 11, 2015. The auction house had estimated the 1955 cubist oil “Les femmes d’Alger (Version “O”)” would sell for about $140 million, but several bidders competing via telephone drove the winning bid to $160 million, for a final price of $179,365,000 including Christie’s commission of just over 12 percent. REUTERS/Carlo Allegri

From Agence France-Presse

Following new auction records set in New York on Monday here are the top 10 most expensive pieces of art sold under the hammer.

All but one were sold in New York. Spanish master Pablo Picasso occupied four of the top spots and Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti three.

Edvard Munch "The Scream" sold for $119.92 million in 2012.
Edvard Munch “The Scream” sold for $119.92 million in 2012.

1) Pablo Picasso “The Women of Algiers (Version 0)” $179.365 million at Christie’s in New York on May 11, 2015

2) Alberto Giacometti “Man Pointing” $141.285 million in the same sale

3) Francis Bacon’s “Three Studies of Lucian Freud” $142.4 million at Christie’s in New York on November 12, 2013.

4) Edvard Munch “The Scream” $119.92 million at Sotheby’s in New York on May 2, 2012.

5) Pablo Picasso “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust” $106.48 million at Christie’s in New York on May 4, 2010.

6) Andy Warhol “Silver car crash (Double disaster)” $105.44 million at Sotheby’s in New York on November 13, 2013

Pablo Picasso's "Garçon a la Pipe"
Pablo Picasso’s “Garçon a la Pipe” sold for $104.16 million in 2004

7) Pablo Picasso “Garcon a la pipe” $104.16 million at Sotheby’s in New York on May 5, 2004

8) Alberto Giacometti “L’homme qui marche I” $103.93 million at Sotheby’s in London on February 3, 2010.

9) Alberto Giacometti “Chariot” $100.96 million at Sotheby’s in New York on November 4, 2014.

10) Pablo Picasso “Dora Maar au chat” $95.21 million at Sotheby’s in New York on May 3, 2006

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